Human blood cells can be directly reprogrammed into neural stem cells

Re:Human blood cells can be directly reprogrammed into neura... by fanzhang on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @01:54AM (#18761026)

Many types of human-cells don't abide by the classic Hayflick limit, including HeLa cells, cancer cells, and gametes.

This brings up the point: if the cells can indeed divide indefinitely, which even stem cells cannot, then aren't these effectively cancer cells / made cancerified? Perhaps this was done on purpose independently to make the cell culture easier to work with, but that should have been mentioned.

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Re:Human blood cells can be directly reprogrammed into neura... by thomasfedb on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @06:12AM (#18761635)

They might share some properties with cancer cells, but probably not all the key characteristics.

For example, one key feature of a cancer cell is that it ignores signals that would causes normal cells to stop growing or apoptose (die).

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